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(From left) Minneapolis attorney Aaron Biber with his mentee, UST Law student Mark Hastie; UST Law student Trusha Patel with her mentor, Minneapolis attorney Roshan Rajkumar. (Photo: Bill Klotz) The University of St. Thomas School of Law last Thursday held a reception to express its appreciation to the hundreds of members of the Minnesota legal [...]

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Hamline University School of Law today named its new dean — respected Twin Cities lawyer Donald Lewis. Lewis is a partner at what, pound for pound, is one of the most business savvy firms in town — Halleland Lewis Nilan and Johnson. The Halleland firm, known for its focus on providing solutions to business clients, [...]

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var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } The University of Minnesota Law School has slipped out of the top 20 in the influential rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, the Pioneer Press reports. The PiPress goes on to say: The university [...]

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My alma mater, Boston College Law School, scored U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to be its commencement speaker this year — an announcement the dean proudly made last January. But, now some members of the school’s faculty have sent Mukasey a letter disinviting him, Legal Blog Watch reports. Well, technically the letter asks the AG [...]

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While law schools nationwide have been grappling with recent declines in the number of enrollments from diverse candidates, Minnesota’s four law schools have been pretty much holding steady and, in one case, substantially increasing its pool of diverse students. The University of St. Thomas School of Law was one of about 20 schools in the [...]

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A local law student had an interesting reply to our post on the decision of big Minnesota-based law firms to keep their starting salaries at $120K rather than to match the $160K being offered in bigger markets. I think the comment is worth highlighting, so here it is: As a law student (OCI next year, [...]

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Good news for local lawyers and law students: You will soon have Nixon to kick around again! OK, OK, it’s actually the topic of Watergate that will be kicked around at a forum at the University of St. Thomas School of Law this April — but that doesn’t make nearly as interesting a lead in, [...]

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Good news for local lawyers and law students: You will soon have Nixon to kick around again! OK, OK, it’s actually the topic of Watergate that will be kicked around at a forum at the University of St. Thomas School of Law this April — but that doesn’t make nearly as interesting a lead in, [...]

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The University of St. Thomas School of Law last night hosted a training session for individuals interested in helping homeowners whose properties are being foreclosed upon. (Click here for Minnesota Lawyer article.) An overflow crowd of mostly law students poured into a room that accommodates 105 for the three-hour session. (UST Prof. Hank Shea said [...]

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The great Minnesota law dean scramble is starting to wind down, with two of the three law schools in need of a new head at or nearing the accomplishment of their objectives. It’s a big change from just two months ago when three of the state’s four law schools were still widely casting their nets [...]

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